The best way to address recent flareups of class unrest in Silicon Valley that have made headlines is to “ignore the protesters,” said outspoken venture capitalist Tom Perkins in an interview Thursday night in San Francisco.

“I just find it almost incomprehensible that someone would get angry about Google buses. Is Google responsible for rising rents? Indirectly, yes. What can they do about it? Nothing.”

Perkins spoke with Adam Lashinsky of Fortune at a sold-out Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Perkins said his idea for better government was, “If you pay $1 million in taxes, you get a million votes.” He later said he was not serious about the remark, and that he made it to be outrageous.

“We’ve always had a 1%,” Perkins said. “It’s never been considered inequality or a problem until Obama.”

The president was a regular target in Perkins’ remarks, in which he repeatedly cited fiscal policies and overspending. “It’s what you get when you elect an amateur president,” he added at one point.

He also had a cold remark for possible presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, saying, “When she walks into a room, the temperature drops 20 degrees.”

And Perkins touched on his inflammatory letter to The Wall Street Journal last month by defending to some extent his likening of hostility toward the rich to treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany. “The parallel holds,” he said. “Some of the Jews were extremely wealthy. I think the parallel holds.” However, he also noted that nothing can be compared to the Holocaust, and that “I said a forbidden word” in mentioning “Kristallnacht,” the night Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses. Perkins said at one point, “If Germany had America’s gun laws, there never would have been a Hitler.”

Asked about race and opportunity in Silicon Valley, Perkins cited a past program at “National Black Awareness Week” (noting that he may have the name of the event wrong) when no students showed up. “If the individuals don’t want to learn, they won’t,” he said.

The co-founder of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers wrote in a letter to The Wall Street Journal last month, “I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent,” comparing the verbal assault on wealthy Americans to “Kristallnacht” of Nazi Germany. The letter was widely criticized, and Perkins later apologized for making comparisons with Nazi Germany, but otherwise stood by the message of his letter. His own firm, where he is no longer active, sought to distance itself from their co-founder, noting in a tweet that he “has not been involved in KPCB in years.”

Perkins’ letter came amid growing class tensions, including high-profile confrontations between affordable-housing and other activists and the expanding workforce of tech companies, whose affluence has helped drive up housing costs in the Bay Area. Tech workers, and the corporate shuttle buses that transport them from San Francisco south to large companies such as Google, have been the object of numerous protests, as the buses have become a symbol of gentrification to many.